book award for your fabulous biography of vanderbilt, the first take on the epic length of cornelius vanderbilt. before that you had written jesse james, the last rebel, which was very well received. and of course, your current book is custer's trials, life on the frontier of new america and all of them are published in t.j. lives in berkeley, california with his family. of course you are depicting a prizes again. i learned last night he won the western writers of america is for a word for biography.t. congratulations on not. [applause] >> as i mentioned, from people who know a lot and have written and read a lot about custer, >>'s very, very nice. >> 2012, michael o'keefe published a two-volume bibliography on george armstrong custer. there were 10,000 items in the annotated them all. 3000 of them were books. so i ain't the logical first question to begin with is t.j. why custer? >> i hate myself. no. [laughter] first of all, i had to say thank you for coming. i appreciate it. i love the chance to talk to readers and potential readers even more. also to have a conversation hutton, you is not j

styles also won a pulitzer in 2010 for the first tycoon a book about industrialist cornelius vanderbilt quake and fire that changed san francisco. 110 years ago today. how some are marking the anniversary. mmm. bacon is lookin good. let's instabrag. honey, jalapeño boom boom, h-how is there no bacon emoji? denny's new honey jalapeño bacon, part of the red white and bacon menu. denny's. welcome to america's diner. health. ==anim== ==take vo== the new fire station at s-f-o is in the path of depart >>> tonight at 6:00, firefighters worried about their health. the new fire station at sfo is in the path of departing flights. the action some firefighters are try to take to force a change. it's a story you'll see only on nbc bay area tonight on our 6:00 newscast. >>> san francisco marks the 110th anniversary of the great quake this morning. sirens blared to mark the exact time the 1906 earthquake struck at 5:12 in the morning. dozens of people attended the service. an estimated 3,000 people died in the '06 quake and fire. for the first time in history of the quake memorial, there was no known

not only did she start the school that she was there with cornelius vanderbilt . >> mike, you look sharp last night. >> very >> have you been there ? >> fantastic. it looks awesome. it was a great event out there. 50 years that's pretty amazing for people who donated.they are now in the south bronx two and they love it out there. awesome ! tanks for having us. >> here is what we have on almanac. 63 for the average high and 47 with the average low. really drop it down to 65 which is where we are now. it will be a warm day. will be hit 80? not there in the city. is a 600 jump in temperatures. 190 warmer than it was and 23 warmer in poughkeepsie. the tri-state. shower chances are out there but it looks like it will be on the northern tier. some of us might not even be making it to the ground but we are expecting showers to pass with the funds and areas of low pressure driving through. you could see around 3:00 with only a few spots of rain popping up on the future cost. that's what indicates now. we will not see a huge widespread event. isolated showers and a storm coming up here in the lat

cornelius vanderbilt got his start by driving robert fulton out of business. robber fulton, steamship operator, had a government monopoly on the hudson river. been,anderbilt, as it had came around and figured out a to compete in illegally with rubber fulton by charging anding for transportation making transportation by selling food on his boat. the state police chased them up and down the hudson river until they just gave up. and he drove rubber fulton out of business. the fulton was the mercantilist. he thought he had a protected monopoly, but vanderbilt drove them out. so the story of the robber barons deuce sherman untrue. free market, you cannot rob anybody. we only way to make money as to persuade people that it is in their adjusted take your product and your service in return for some of their money. hill belt ofes j the transcontinental railroad without a dime in government subsidies. railroad. better he built a fter. had better service. he subsidized the towns along the way because, if they did not prosper, he would not prosper. he gave them free grain

cornelius vanderbilt, the shipping magnate, took victoria and oner her sisters under a wing and set themn a wall street brokerage firm and is a newspaper. the paper enabled the woodhall sisters to pillary their enemies with scandals. in the end, victoria left america for england where she found another rich man and lived quietly in a mansion. she died in 1927, seven years after women won the right to vote. >> landing in the history books, falconine rocket making a successionful return back here to earth touching down on a drone ship. previous landing attempts suffered from various mishaps. the unmanned rocket came home after launching a cover agree capsule -- cargo capsule yesterday. >>> rescue of real life castaway, a story you don't want to miss. that's next. >> it soaks like a scene from a movie. thanks to this heaven signal made of palm leaves, a u.s. navy patrol was able to rescue three castaways stranded on an uninhabited pacific island. they were marooned for three days 2,000 miles from hawaii until the navy spotted the sailors waving life jackets in front of the makeshift sign. t

. >> the vanderbilts came to america in the 1600s, for several generations were unremarkable. and then along came a young man named corneliusas full of energy and vitality. he started with one ship and by the time he was finished with shipping, he had more ships than the u.s. navy and more money than the u.s. treasury. he was clearly by then a transportation genius, began to connect independent rail lines into the new york central system and build his second transportation empire. before 1913, there were no taxes. so enormous fortunes like these were set up to perpetuate, and people that inherited them thought they would go on forever. well, that's my grandfather, alfred gwynn vanderbilt iii, next to him was reginald. he was the youngest, baby of the family. reggie was a great deal of fun. he lost legendary amounts of money at canfield's casino in newport. >> and he married my grandmother, gloria morgan. she was this great beauty, probably 17 or 18 when they got married. they didn't have much of a life together frankly. i mean, they met, they got married, and after my mom was born amazingly they went off on an extended trip